Athletic union garment



A. N. OPPENHEIM ATHLETIC UNION GARMENT Filed Dec. 1, 1922 Patented Jul15, 1924.

UNITED srA asrATENT OFFICE.

- AUSTIN N. OPPENHEIH, 0F BALTIMORE,

armnrrc-nmon GARMENT.

' Application filed December 1,1922. Serial meoam.

To all whom i t may concern:

Be it known that Aos'rm N. OBPENH IM, 1 a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, has in- 'vented certainnew and useful Improvements in Athletic Union Garments, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in athletic union garments andhas for its ob-.

ject to provide an improved construction of union garment of the wovenfabric type wherein the crotch is closed; both the front and back arefree of vertical plackets from the neck down to the waist; the front andrear are permanently connected across one shoulder between one arm-holeand the neck- 0 ening while across the other shoulder tl ere is provideda strap which extends from the rear body-part. and laps over'onto thefront bod -part and is detachably con nected to sai latter body-part. V

According to my invention, the athletic garment will be free of thefront placket from the neck to the crotch and will'therefore also befree of buttons down-the front which buttons fre uently become detachedleaving the front p acket gaping. A

By therefore providing an athletic undergarment of theusual woven fabricwith but one detachable fastening that must be madiiflllfltfid to put'-the garment on or take it I produce a garment that is'much sim' hfied,very comfortable and which will avoid the annoyance to a'wearer who whenhe puts an open front garment on finds one or more buttons missing fromthe front placket. I a

The invention is illustrated in the accom-- panying drawing, wherein F11 shows the improved garment in perspective asviewed from the front, and

Fig. 2 illustrates, on an enlarged scale,

' the upper-portion of the garment to bring out more clearly theconnections between the front and rear body-parts which connectionsseparate the neck-opening from the arm-hole openings.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of %y reference-to the drawing itwill be noted that the garment which is made principally of woven fabrichas a front 3 com prising an up r body-part 4, and a lowereg-part 5, anthat said bod -part is perman'ently closed at the front om the neckvidedas is usual in sp lling 6, down; in that nO fr p t is employed. 7

At the crotch 7, the garment is permanently closed by any suitablecrotch strucf ture, such forexampleas by crotch insert strips 8, whichare permanently stitched in the legs and extend across the crotchin thev usual manner.

A slit9, see broken lines in Fig. ,1, is provlded in the front of thegarment above the covered by a short flap 10, that is permanentlystitched to the garment front, but has one vertical'edge 11; thereoffree so the same may be turnedback.

1n the present instance the rear .of the garment has an upper back-part12, and a cross-wise insert 13, of theusual. elastic web- 'bing isprovided" in the back at about the A posterior flap 14, is alsoprovided'at the rear of the garment as indicated" waist-line.

by broken lines in Fig. 1. v

The neck-opening 6, as'is usual in athletic underwear, extends-well downor is cut low atthe front of the garment to provide amlple opening aboutthe neck. 'rm-holes 15, 0f ample size are also pro this class ofathletic garments. 3

At the right shoulder thereis provided an elastic strap connection 16which has its rear end permanently connected to the u per edge of therear body-part 12 while its out en is permanently connected to the frontbodyart 4. This elastic. connection 16 there ore provides a fixed andelastic connection between the, rent and rmanent crotch, for obviouspurposes, and this slit is back, both of-which are woven material andtherefore are inelastic, and this strap 16 also permanently separatesthe neck-opening 6" from the right arm-hole 15.-

At the opposite or left shoulder ,of the garment there is rovided anelastic connection or strap 1 whose rear edge 18 is 17 formin I ishededge and Toy thus folding es webbing along the two sides it produces edouble thickness that reinforces the strap. The front detachable edge 19ofthe connection strap 17 is provided on its under side with a strip 21to the elastic-strap 17, shown in broken lines in Fig. 2, which strip isof inelastic material, and the attachment of this strip 21, renders thefront edge of tening to retain the garment on the body is the connectionstrap '17 on the left shoulder and this connection fastens at itsforwardedge to the upper edge of the front body part.

It will further he noted that when the elastic connection 1? is detachedst 20, the neck-opening 6 end the large left arm-opening 15 wilitogetherform on opening of setficient size to enable the garment to be drawn upover the legs and body of the wearer and that when drawn up, the oneconnection l7 on the left shoulder may readily be fastened with thefingers of the righthend of the wearer and the garment thus be held inplace on the body.

The manner of construction the detechable strip 17, made as it is,throngh'e conirtenings and danger of tearing at those fastening isminimized.

Having described my invention, I claim,-

A one-piece undergarment of inelastic material, comprising a. unitarybody and leg portion having relatively large am openrings, and a neckopening between them, a separable shoulder strap sepemtin' the neck fromone arm opening an adapted ophenindg w on isenga ed to provide a slip-onas the combined nec opening and one arm opening are of a size to-freelyadmit the body to the garment, said separable shoulder strap of elasticwoven material and havi a pair of buttonholes in said elastic meteria apair of buttons on the front portion of the garmerit to enter'thebnttonholes, and e. strip of inelastic material secured beneath the endof the strap and having registering buttonholes and preventing stretchmgof the strep at the louttonhole end.

AUSTIN N. QOPPEIM.

i In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. 7

